Enabling Connectivity Checking in NetworkManager

[Thomas Bechtold]

On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 14:41 -0400, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre wrote:
> I'd like to enable connectivity checking in NetworkManager. We'd use
> http://start.ubuntu.com/connectivity-check.html, running the check
> every 5 minutes starting from the connection being established.
> start.ubuntu.com has already been in use for a while to verify
> connectivity from the installer, IIRC.

http://start.ubuntu.com/connectivity-check.html should set the header
"X-NetworkManager-Status". That's what NM checks first [1]. Then you
don't need "response=Lorem ipsum" in the [connectivity] section.


Cheers, 

Tom

[1]
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/tree/src/nm-connectivity.c#n104